Copy to the People's Commissariat of Railways

In view of the special importance of repairs to the river and maritime fleets, all provincial executive committees are instructed, under the personal responsibility of their chairmen, to provide organs of water transport with every possible assistance in supplying them with materials, foodstuffs, labor, and premises, casting aside unnecessary formalities and red tape.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin

Written December 8, 1920

First published in 1942

in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Reproduced from the typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin